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Roos are protected in QLD but both Commercial and Recreational wildlife (Macropod) harvesting licences are available. With harvest quotas and zones/regions adjusted each year depending on the conditions and roo populations/expected reproduction rates that year.
Ducks and quail no longer have an open season in QLD. Only a few hundred licences were issued annually (perhaps less) so I find that ban overzealous. Some green group managed to convince the govt that the population was in extreme crisis and the ban came in. I don't know about everybody else but I see an amazing amount of ducks waddling through paddocks and parks and every time I go near freshwater.

As for eating game myself, my list is like most others here.
Rabbits (+occasional hare), pigs, fallow/chital (axis)/red deer, goats.

Now I'm fighting the urge to post some pics, but I don't think that is a crash hot idea for some reason. A big, dressed, dogged boar on the tray of a ute usually isn't a pretty subject.

Hey Cargs, got access to a couple of properties around Pine Creek, Katherine area. Lived in Katherine many years ago. One stage we had access out to Armhem Land, near Coburg. That was the best place I've every hunted for boars.

Yabbies

I forgot grass hoppers.

Goana

Are they not protected?
Do they taste good?

cut/paste: Although kangaroos are a protected species, there are so many of them that they are widely regarded as pests, and they are hunted by professional shooters according to a strict quota system.

From this article " Eating Skippy: Why Australia has a problem with kangaroo meat" here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23086541

Its a shame, that they are not used more as food IMO

cheers

Absolute crying shame in my opinion.

Plus in some places there is the practice of burying the entire cull in pits. Creates a massive nutrient contamination that pollutes the soil for years.

In my opinion, kangaroo meat belongs in the dogs bowl, its very ordinary. Although, my opinion is tarnished by the smell of shooting and gutting way too many. Its a rich sickly foul smell that you will never forget.

Lets face it, if it was any good, everyone would be eating it.

I enjoy roo steaks and roo spaghetti Bol but unfortunately the mrs doesn't so I rarely get it. That smell when the knife pierces the gut.... Would put anyone off


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Don't forget horse, pigs in the NT love them

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie.

I invite you to try my signature dish sometime, Charlie - Marinated 'roo medallions on a bed of mashed potato/jasmine rice with honeyed sliced carrots and fresh AP grown greens. I think you will soon overcome your 'issues' with Skippy.

Don't pierce the gut. I never do when I clean any animal. Never cleaned a roo, but have cleaned many animals over my 30 years of hunting. For the last 8 years my hunting and cleaning have feed my family with no store bought meat.

I was born and raised on a farm in Africa and have eaten virtually every animal on the hoof - so I am qualified to have an opinion

I rate kangaroo steak and kangaroo jerky (biltong) higher than virtually any other red meat.

These days i eat very little red meat but do enjoy a nice marinated kangeroo steak on the BBQ once a month.

This is what I have come to learn after much trial and many errors. Even old boomers (bucks/males) can taste good and be reasonably tender if handled properly. Once the bladder is pierced and the meat tainted by urine even a tender young 'roo will have that distasteful 'rooey' flavour, ie tastes the way a dirty old boomer smells, haha!

I believe more 'roo meat is consumed in Germany and France than in Oz. I'm not sure about the Germans but the French know good tucker.